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Henry Hazlitt

1894-1993 · American economic journalist and author of popular works on free-market economics

Short biography: Henry Hazlitt in Great Lives

About Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993) was an American journalist and economist, born in Philadelphia, who left school early and educated himself largely through reading. He wrote for the Wall Street Journal and The Nation, served as an editorial writer for The New York Times from 1934 to 1946, and wrote the 'Business Tides' column for Newsweek from 1946 to 1966. A friend and promoter of Ludwig von Mises, he helped found the Foundation for Economic Education and wrote The Failure of the 'New Economics' (1959), a chapter-by-chapter critique of Keynes.

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Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt

1946 · Postwar Contemporary · Essays

Economics in One Lesson is a short primer that sets out to explain the economic fallacies most common in public debate and to show that nearly all of them come from a single mistake. Henry Hazlitt, then an editorial writer for The New York Times, published it in 1946, and a revised edition with a new concluding chapter appeared in 1979.

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